62
Metascore
Generally Favorable
positive
16(67%)
mixed
8(33%)
negative
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Showing 24 Critic Reviews
100
Ozon's greatest special effect is holding the camera in tight on the faces of Bruni-Tedeschi (one of the most expressive faces in French cinema) and Freiss.
91
A sort of anti-date movie, a smart but deeply cynical study in failure, with our sense of loss growing in direct proportion to the characters' romantic hopes.
80
Unlike "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind," which holds the memories of a doomed affair as precious, there's nothing bittersweet about Ozon's failed romance, but its problems are equally true.
80
Plays a little like a mystery, the central question of which is not whodunit but why.
75
5x2 is a little talky and the pace is slow, but, for this kind of motion picture, it's one of the best around.
75
Compellingly acted and rich in visual ideas, but a bit thin in its psychological approach.
75
When you piece it all together, it becomes mildly fascinating.
70
Excellent perfs and writer-director Francois Ozon's sure, unfussy way with the camera add up to a viewing experience whose richness depends in large part on how much the viewer reads into the human templates on display.
70
Deceptively placid and subtly unpredictable drama.
70
You can make a good movie about a bad marriage, as countless directors, the latest being Ozon, have discovered.
